Hello: I don't know if this is the right place to ask this. I'm new to Solaris world. I bought an Ultra 10.....Installed Solaris 10 and everything appears to be OK. I installed a Modem (Intel 536EP) It has Linux drivers but I don't know how to install/configure it on Solaris. Can someone ...

Had a Sol10 (1106) virtual machine hosted on ESX 3.01 panic on me last night. It panicked repeatedly, then stopped for no apparent reason. Here's the output from /var/adm/messages:May 14 21:07:48 IUProWeb03 ^Mpanic[cpu0]/thread=ffffffff8d839d80: May 14 21:07:48 IUProWeb03 genunix: [ID 335743 ...

Hi allall our network switches will be rebooted in the next days. They will be rebooted at the same time a reboot takes in the best case 5 minutes, this means we will loose the interconnects and the public interfaces at the same time in our clusters. I know we should reboot the redundant ...

I downloaded and applied the latest st.conf patch (113277-52), which I though would provide the st.conf entry for the SDLT600. But there's still no entry for the SDLT600. Am I misunderstanding what this patch does?Thanks,Harry

Hi all, how do I enable and configure system resource monitoring in Sun Cluster 3.2? The Sun Cluster Manager online system says to refer to the Sun Cluster admin manual, however, there isn't anything in that manual on resource monitoring, not even a single paragraph. I've discovered some ...

I am attempting to set up a mirror of my entire primary disk c0t1d0 with an identical disk c0t0d0.I issue the commands:metainit d11 1 1 c0t1d0s2metainit: hostname: c0t1d0s2: overlaps with c0t1d0s0 which is mounted as '/'metainit d12 1 1 c0t0d0s2d12: Concat/Stripe is setupmetainit d10 -m ...

I get no disks found.There is no way to disable Smart Array P400 using ROM based settings which appears after pressing F9.It seems the DISABLE option for P400 controller is removed.Has anyone had success in disabling the array controller on ML370G5server?please ...

Hi all,I'm new to Solaris.I am using oracle on solaris5.8. The prstat is showing that oracle is using 99%(32GB) of physical memory,where oracle is supposed to use only 3GB of memory as per our configuration. The top command shows the exact figure i.e. as per expectation. I'm not sure that the ...

Hi....Can anybody explain what's the importance of SUDO, How to configure on Solaris 9?

HiI'm quite new to SolarisI've installed solaris 9 on my Enterprise 450 . After installation I wasn't able to see disks attached to my raid controller. If i run probe-scsi-all I see my disks, but not with format. I've found a patch about this problem (115548-01) but the patch make no ...

Hello,I have tried to install Sun Solaris 10 on my IBM ThinkPad R31 notebook, but the system has problem at initial stage of loading the installation software from CD. Here is the message I see on the screen when the CD is loaded:loading stage2 ....GNU GRUB Version 0.95 (639K lower / 514880K ...

I was wondering if there was a set of best practices for multi-terrabyte globally mounted filesystems under Sun Cluster. Is there a filesystem (and volume manager) of choice that people are using?A bit of background: We have a Solaris 10/Sun Cluster 3.1 installation currently with a 6.5 ...

Hello,A TapeStor Travan USB tape drive is reported to work on Solaris 10 x86as per HCL. But I don't have a clue how to make it work. The device is attached to mycomputer and shows up in a "cfgadm" command (USB0/2):# cfgadm -alAp_Id Type ReceptacleOccupantConditionusb0/1 ...

Hi all, the department I work in at Uni is to be given some pre-owned Sun Fire V440s and some T1000s from another department. If I were to build a 2-node NFS cluster (Sun Cluster 3.2), what would people recommend I use, the two V440s or the two T1000s?Thanks in ...

Hi,I have four box's of which two are app servers and two are DB servers.External storage is connected only to DB servers and App servers cannot see this.is it possible to configure four node cluster with storage as quorum device?

i've succeeded in installing solaris 10.i am now stuck in a loop.when starting up, the solaris install always starts and want the software 5 disk to continue.i've put in every disk i have, but nothing seems to satisfy the installer so it can continue.i received 3 disks from sun in the mail, a ...

Hello,I noticed that the system has not been writing to /var/adm/messages for some time. Checked for the syslogd daemon and this wasn't running. So I tried restarting syslogd in debug mode:impws02{root}# syslogd -dmain(1): Started at time Thu May 17 11:45:46 2007hnc_init(1): hostname cache ...

I had an unpatched Solaris 10 11/06 system that I finally got around to patching. I selected all 98 available patches and let it do it's thing. Everything went well and I did the required reboot and many of the patches that were applied right before shutdown failed, but quite a few were ...

<Apologies for posting in this thread and the Hardware one>Hi,I have recently got a new processor (a X6990A) and installed it into my Blade 1000; this matches the processor that was originally in it. Ever since then I have had no success with booting Solaris with both the ...

My SUN cluster configuration: Two V210s, EMC Clariion, Sun Cluster 4.1 update 4, Solaris 10 6/06, MPxio. I've installed a two node cluster and it's working. If I boot both nodes at the same time everthing comes up fine. The problem is when I reboot one node in the cluster, the node does not ...

Hello,I am not even up to "New to Solaris Development" level yet. I havent even touched a solaris machine, yet it is my task to figure out a way to test a plug and play USB audio device on a Solaris 9/10 system. The systems we are using are Sun V210s with either Solaris 9 or 10 preinstalled. ...

Hi,I am trying to install Solaris 10 on HP ML370G5 server with P400 RAID Controller. I downloaded the RAID driver from HP site. I was able to run the install CD #1 succesfully but after reboot OS fails to come up. When I select the Failsafe mode it says No installed OS Instance found.What could ...

Hi,Ive got bash on by terminal. I needs to set some Path variables in the enviromental file so I can use things like the make commands etc.Ive looked around the web and apparently its called .bash_profile and is in my home directory.Well ive looked hi and low for this file, even tried to make ...

Hi,I am trying to wanboot one of my client (E420) and receiving the following error:Processing profile- Opening Flash archiveERROR: Unexpected HTTP start position 1202417837 (expecting 0)ERROR: Could not read file ( http://172.28.190.121:80/flash/archives/sol_10_sparc.flar)ERROR: Flash ...

I'm trying to share my internet connection from my Ubuntu laptop to my Solaris box. Traceroute works on the solaris machine so, I know there is internet connection between the two. my output when I do ifconfig -a#ifconfig -alo0: ...

Hi, I have been trying to take ownership for this newly created disk set but the system never allows me. Even i tried to shutdown one node but still not working. The system always gives me error metaset: essdbp01: ora-dbp-dg: must be owner of the set for this commandHow can I take the ownership ...

Currently I am running Solaris Express Developer however i noticed there is no Subversion or CVS installed by default.The version I am running is as follows.bash-3.00$ uname -aSunOS solaris-devx 5.11 snv_55b i86pc i386 i86pcAny ideas if there is a newer version, and whether it has subversion ...

Hi all, at the Uni where I work, we currently have a 2 node (2 x v480) Sun Cluster running iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2. We are looking at upgrading the mail system to Sun Java Messaging Server 6.3, and possibly Calender, later this year. What do people recommended we upgrade the hardware too? ...

I compiled my own MySQL 5.0.41 and have it installed in /opt/mysql and everything works fine. I hunted around and found a manifest and startup script here http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/mysql_smf_tip.html and it never starts MySQL, it just stays in a persistent maintenance ...

Hello,Given a configuration with 4 internal drives, is there a reason not to create and mount /var on a different drive? Is there any requirement that /var be on the same physical drive as / or just that it be mount-able?For example, if the root filesystem and swap are mirrored on disk0 and ...

I need to upgrade a few Blade 100's to Sol 10 and I'm looking to use a Addonics DVD instead of the installed CDROM. These work fine after the machine is running the OS, so I know the hardware works. So now, what is the boot string necessary from the boot prom? (boot ...

Hello.I'm new in Solaris 10 Developer Edition.I've installed it on my Acer Aspire 1710 laptop.To install successfully, I've constrained to pass "user-acpi-options=0x2" to the kernel due to "probably" a bad compatibility of ACPI Management and my computer.Since, Solaris runs very good.The ...

I have a HP Pavilion dv9000t laptop. I installed Solaris 10 11/06. The install went fine and everything including the keyboard worked during the install. Now that all that is done, when the GUI Login screen shows I can use my mouse fine, but the keyboard does not work at all. The weird thing is ...

Hey guys,One of our sun servers has 20G drive and only 1G is utilized for root, /var and /home. I want to repartition the disk so it could utilize the whole space. How can I do that without losing data?Thanks

I installed Sun cluster 3.1 u4 and it works fine. But in a error in the installation I delete a metaset with -purgue option, then Sun Cluster find a device group that don磘 exist. It磗 possible fix this situation.ssconf -p Device group name: nfs Device group type:SVM Device group failback ...

how to find last modification time of a file in timestamp format in solaris?in linux i could do it by help of stat command.but stat command doesnot work in solaris.please help.its urgently needed.Message was edited by: rahularora

Hi, as the title of my post says, I am totally new to this system. However I am eager to learn. I start looking for help on unix.com forum. I am posting on here hoping I can get more success as well. Please see link which I am referencing from unix.com. It has my questions on ...

Tow node sun cluster system, reboot one node, look into /var/adm/messages on the other node, found:400592 UNIX DLM is asking for a reconfiguration to recover from a communication error. This message is acceptable during a reconfiguration already in progress. Is it the normal behavior of sun ...

HiI'm quite new to solaris and I need to generate some executables on my Solaris 9 box using make files. In the make file I've the compiler set as follow "CC = cc"I tried to use /usr/ucb/cc but doesn't work then I've installed gcc 3.3.2 and use it (changing my mk file form "CC = cc" to "CC ...

Gurus, So far we've been delivering a HA Agent package for our application. There was no need for us to modify the RTR file (ORCL.scocs) that comes with the package, until now. Recently we revamped the way we implemented our agents, this resulted in us modifying our RTR file ORCL.scocsSo far ...

Folks,Did you come across any products, who SMFied their product and how it impacts their cluster installations ?. Please provide details if you have anyThanks mUch_D

im trying to install solaris 10 on my dell latitude D800..everything runs fine except the nvidia 5650 driver..cant find it anywhere...any ideas ? HELP!

Hello I am a beginner in S 10 and planned to start learning it installing S 10 on a VMware server 1.0.3 (free) on my machine where I have win xp pro pre-installed. I downloaded S 10 SW as ISO for CD and installed the same. My problem is the entire file system on S 10 seems read-only and I do ...

Hi,When register the oracle_server resource I got some strange messages.The resource group failed over to the other node and everything started with out any warnings. Also tried to fail it back on the first node but even here there were no warnings or errors.I can't find any information about ...

An update to previous post.I have an Enterprise 3500 that will not boot off the cdrom.At OK prompt I entered:OK> limit-ecache-size (Without entering above command, boot cdrom just hangs forever)thenOK> boot cdromBad Magic number in disk labelCan't open disk label packageCan't open boot ...

Hi,I install Solaris 10 using JumpStart server.My host_class file looks as follow:nstall_typeflash_installarchive_location nfs 10.160.19.170:/export/home/flash/sol1partitioningexplicitfilesys c1t0d0s015000/filesys any 4000swapfilesys c1t0d0s7free/export/homepackage JSatsvr addpackage JSatsvu ...

Im trying to install the solaris express developer edition 2/07 dvd i got in the mail.Everything goes fine until i have to set up the hard drive for installation. I have two hard drives, 1 SATA (Server 2003), and a 20Gb IDE for this Solaris install.When i click next to start installing, it ...

Hi,I am a solaris newbie and am trying to get the network interface up on solaris 10. I have set the required details in /etc/hostname.if/etc/hosts/etc/inet/ipnodes/etc/inet/netmasks/etc/defaultrouteryet on the startup i get a message "failed to bring up IPv4 interfaces : interfacename"And when ...

Hi all,I am trying to carry out an unattended installation of solaris 11/06 on a sparc machine. If I use the operandname_service=none inside the sysidcfg file, everything goes fine and I can indeed do the install without any interaction whatsoever. But when I try to use something ...

Has anyone dowloaded the above Recommended & Security Patches from sunsolve? When trying to unzip the file I am getting the below error message:# unzip 10_Recommended.zipArchive: 10_Recommended.zip End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a zipfile, or it ...